The 1932 Washington Senators won 93 games, lost 61, and finished in third place in the American League. They were managed by Walter Johnson and played home games at Griffith Stadium.
The 1932 Season Part 1. We let Deveaux provide highlights from 1932: The Senators were in the running for second until the last weekend (of the 1931 season), when they were edged out by the Yankees and settled in third, a full 16 games behind the Athletics. Despite having dropped a rung in the standings, Clark Griffith still felt that the eight men he could put on the field could match the more powerful lineups in the league, namely New York and Philadelphia. Griff decide not to do much tinkering with his ballclub for 1932, a year which would prove to be another exciting one for his team. The Nats had, above all, a terrific infield. Joe Cronin drove in 116 runs, batted .318, and led the league's shortstops in put-outs, assists, double plays, and fielding average. The Senators as a team were once again at the top of the league in fielding in 1932, in a virtual tie for the top spot with the A's.
Offensively, Joe Kuhel improved to .291 in his second full year, although he shared- first base with Joe Judge, who hit .258 in his 18th and final season in Washington. Third baseman Ossie Bluege hit .258, and his production returned to normal, with 64 ribbies, compared to his anomalous 98 RBIs the previous year. Buddy Myer dropped to .279, the second-lowest mark of his career, but, ironically, scored a career-high 120 runs.
Preparing the outfield for the '32 campaign presented a bit more of a challenge to Griffith, who decided to trade for outfielder Carl Reynolds of the Chicago White Sox. Reynolds, solidly built but viewed as temperamental by Chicago manager Donie Bush, had slipped to .290 in 1931 after finishing third in the batting race in 1930 with .359. That season, during which he bashed three homers in consecutive at-bats in a game at Yankee Stadium, Reynolds accumulated 22 homers and 100 RBIs, but those figures dipped to 6-77 in '31.
Griffith figured the righthanded Reynolds would counterbalance the lefty-hitting Sammy West and Heinie Manush. Manush hit a resounding .342, fourth-best in the league, and exactly matched Cronin's RBI output of 116. West slipped to .287 from .333, but had 15 outfield assists, just one short of the tally of the league leader in that department, Goose Goslin of the Browns.
Photograph by Brown Brothers capturing President Herbert Hoover as he prepares to throw out the ceremonial first pitch of the season on opening day, April 11, 1932, at Washington's Griffith Stadium:
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